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#291: Oscilloscopes use in the Ham Radio Shack | FLARC Club talk, part 2

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This video is Part 2 of a presentation that I gave at the Fair Lawn Amateur Radio Club (FLARC) in April 2018. This part covers a few applications of using scopes in the hamshack. Each of these applications has been covered in individual videos before. For more detail on any of these applications, please see the additional video links below:

FLARC Talk Part 1: Basics of Oscilloscopes:

Videos on monitoring your transmitter output:
Simple Station Monitor:

Early vid on station monitoring:

Various RF Samplers:

Setting PSK31 levels:

Videos on measuring coax with TDR (scope and pulse gen):
Use scope to measure coax Z and length:

Cheap TDR using scope and square wave oscillator:

Details on square wave oscillator:

Measure velocity factor and Z of unknown coax:

Measuring unknown inductors and capacitors:

Learn more about the Fair Lawn Amateur Radio Club on their website:
http://fairlawnarc.org/